Martin Dzbor's profile document Description for Martin Dzbor Martin Dzbor Martin Dzbor Martin Dzbor Senior Research Fellow I worked on the <b>NeOn</b> project (http://neon-project.org) - as a senior research scientist and technical manager. NeOn is a flagship project of IST FP6 and investigates aspects of evolution, collaboration, contextualization and human-ontology interaction in the environment of large-scale networked ontologies. <br><br> Before NeOn I managed OU contribution to the <b>KnowledgeWeb</b> project (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/kweb), and previously, I have worked in the <b>climate<i>prediction</i>.net</b> (http://www.climateprediction.net) project - a large-scale climate modelling and distributed computing project (similar to SETI@Home). The motivation for KMi in both projects was the application of our cutting-edge tools and technologies developed around Magpie and BuddySpace, and to make a contribution to the Semantic Web vision. I delivered a tool that can be called a 'Semantic Web browser'. <br><br> The Magpie plug-in of MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, which is one of my main designs and implementations, supports ontology-based interpretation, sense-making and exploration of web resources. Find out more on the <b>Magpie</b> project web page (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/magpie)... The Open University account for Martin Dzbor md267 Martin Dzbor's membership at KMi Martin Dzbor's participation in Meet-O-Matic Meet-O-Matic Meet-O-Matic The World's Simplest Meeting Scheduler Have you ever tried to schedule a meeting involving participants who don't use your official authorized scheduling tool? In fact, even if your participants did use that tool, would it really help solve your routine scheduling requirements? With Meet-O-Matic, you can propose and schedule meetings online and invite participants using your own email system, then monitor responses to your meeting invitation as they arrive and are displayed in Meet-O-Matic's intuitive visual constraint table. Martin Dzbor's participation in AKT AKT AKT 2000-10-01 2006-09-30 Advanced Knowledge Technologies The AKT project aims to develop the next generation of knowledge technologies to support organizational knowledge management. AKT will look at all aspects of knowledge management from acquiring and maintaining knowledge to publishing and sharing it. We intend to address all these closely related issues in an integrated approach, making use of recent developments in artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, multimedia and Internet technology. The AKT consortium comprises five UK universities and is funded by a 7M GBP, 6-year EPSRC grant in the context of the Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations programme. Martin Dzbor's participation in BuddySpace BuddySpace BuddySpace Enhanced Presence Management for Collaboration, Messaging, and Gaming BuddySpace aims to provide enhanced capabilities for users to manage and visualise the presence of colleagues and friends in collaborative working, gaming, messaging, and other contexts. Of particular interest is the role of graphical metaphors for presence, including maps, logical layouts such as building schematics and project timelines and abstract artistic layouts such as graffiti walls. We are also studying the semantics of presence, in order to move beyond simple flags such as 'online' and 'busy' to include rich contextual and spatio-temporal information more appropriate to one's focus of activity. Martin Dzbor's participation in climateprediction.net climateprediction.net climateprediction.net State-of-the-art simulation of the climate system The climateprediction.net [http://climateprediction.net] is a state-of-the-art simulation of the climate system which runs on PCs. Project participants will be able to download and run different parametrizations of a climate simulation program, thus providing data for studying climate change. The collaborators in this large-scale e-Science project are The Open University, the universities of Oxford and Reading, Rutherford Appleton Labs, and The MetOffice. KMi's role in the project is to develop a robust semantic web portal for the estimated 2 million participants. A mixture of technologies will be used, including integrated discussion forums, a web-based news service, conferencing services and social areas using the latest instant messaging programs. This portal will also use state-of-the-art semantic web technology (developed in KMi) to provide fully customisable 'semantic filters' that can be placed over any web-based document (whether local or remote), and provide the user with the context of identified 'concepts-of-interests'. Martin Dzbor's participation in Magpie Magpie Magpie The semantic filter Magpie adds an ontology based semantic layer onto web pages on-the-fly as they are browsed. Magpie automatically highlights key items of interest, and for each highlighted term it provides a set of 'services' (e.g. contact details, current projects, related people) when you right-click on the item. Martin Dzbor's participation in KnowledgeWeb KnowledgeWeb KnowledgeWeb 2004-01-01 2007-12-31 Ontology technology from Academia to Industry Knowledge Web is a FP6 Network of Excellence that aims to support the transition of Ontology technology from Academia to Industry. The current consortium is integrated by 18 participants including leading partners in Semantic Web, Multimedia, Human Language Technology, Workflow and Agents. Martin Dzbor's participation in Cititag Cititag Cititag Research in social location-based play for large groups in city environments CitiTag is an innovative wireless location-based multiplayer game. These are boundaries we are exploring : what kind of engaging social experiences can emerge in the real world based on the awareness of individuals participating in a parallel virtual experience? Does virtual presence penetrate physical presence in any way? How do group behaviours emerge?" Martin Dzbor's participation in MKSchools.net MKSchools.net MKSchools.net 1997-05-05 Milton Keynes Educational Portal Wired/wireless: whatever it takes, we are excited by the prospect of helping schools achieve ubiquitous Internet access in order to facilitate creative learning, particularly through original content creation by children. We initiated MKSchools.Net to help local schools attain wireless broadband access, along with suitable filtering and mentoring, in order to kick-start their activities. MKSchools.Net is now a fully managed service delivering broadband wireless and wireline Internet to over 25,000 children in 90 schols in Milton Keynes Martin Dzbor's participation in NeOn NeOn NeOn 2006-03-01 2010-02-28 Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies NeOn is a 4-year long flagship project funded by the European Commision's 6th Framework Programme. The Open University is its co-ordinator, and the project includes leading institutions from Europe in the area of knowledge modelling and ontologies. NeOn aims to dramatically improve the support for ontology engineering, by developing both a reference architecture and a concrete toolkit supporting the ontology engineering lifecycle. Specifically, NeOn aims to be the foundational platform for the construction of very large semantic applications by facilitating the creation, management and evolution of networks of ontologies. It is envisaged that this approach will dramatically improve the cost-effectiveness of large-scale ontology engineering, by removing the need for a complete integration of pre-existing ontologies in an application, which is always expensive and often unfeasible. The envisaged networks of ontologies will rely on localized integration mechanisms, which will be able to support local, 'good enough' notions of consistency, context and collaboration in the open networked environment. Martin Dzbor's participation in MSG MSG MSG 2006-03-01 The World's Simplest Messenger MSG a web application that allows you to use the basic functionality of the earlier BuddySpace Instant Messaging system within a standard web browser. This makes it ideal for use in environments where software can not be installed, or on networks where Internet access is restricted by firewalls and proxy servers, or where performing the installation is just cumbersome for the users. Martin Dzbor's participation in BuddyFinder-CORDER BuddyFinder-CORDER BuddyFinder-CORDER 2005-09-01 Find the right people with the right knowledge in the right place at the right time Online social networking tools are extremely popular, but can miss potential discoveries latent in the social 'fabric'. Matchmaking services can do naive profile matching with old database technology, and modern ontological markup, though powerful, can be onerous at data-input time. BuddyFinder-CORDER can automatically produce a ranked list of buddies to match a user's search requirements specified in a term-based query, even in the absence of stored user-profiles. We integrate an online social networking search tool called BuddyFinder with a text mining method called CORDER to rank a list of online users based on 'inferred profiles' of these users in the form of scavenged Web pages. Martin Dzbor's participation in SimLink SimLink SimLink 2005-04-01 Shared control of virtual experiments via Instant Messaging SimLink is a system for deployment and use of Java based downloadable plugins within the BuddySpace instant messaging system. It also supports a mechanism to 'share state' in the group chat environment of BuddySpace. This means that we can design a plugin whose current state is synchronized in all participants of a group chat session. For example, one of sample plugins provided, allows participants to play a networked game of Chess, and additionally progress of the game can be viewed by participants not involved in the game. In practice, SimLink allows multiple users to share control of simulations and other software at much lower bandwidth penalty than 'raw' screen-sharing would entail. Martin Dzbor's participation in Revyu Revyu Revyu A Web site that exploits Semantic Web technology and allows you to review and rate anything you want Revyu.com is a web site where you can review and rate things. Unlike many other reviewing sites on the web, Revyu.com lets you review and rate absolutely anything you can name. Revyu.com exploits Semantic Web technologies, both as the underlying representation mechanism and also to dynamically retrieve semantic information available on the web, which is relevant to a particular review. Because the content of all reviews is published on the site in RDF/XML as well as HTML, you can easily reuse the reviews you write in any other web site or application. Martin Dzbor's participation in Watson Watson Watson 2006-07-01 Exploring the Semantic Web As the Semantic Web gains momentum, large amounts of semantic information are becoming available online. The emergence of such large-scale semantics opens the way to a new generation of Semantic Systems, able to overcome the brittleness of classic domain-specific semantic systems and supporting open-ended tasks, such as web browsing and question answering. Watson is an innovative gateway for the Semantic Web, whose design has been guided by the requirements of this new generation of Semantic Web applications and by the lessons learnt from previous systems. Watson plays three main roles: 1) collects the available semantic content on the Web, 2) analyzes it to extract useful metadata and indexes, and 3) implements efficient query facilities to access these data, which are structured around thousand and thousand of separate ontologies. Martin Dzbor's participation in PowerMagpie PowerMagpie PowerMagpie 2006-10-01 A semantically-enhanced web browser PowerMagpie is a new generation semantically-enhanced web browser, which is able to dynamically identify and bring into a web browsing session any available semantic markup, which can be found on the Semantic Web. In contrast with previous systems, such as Magpie, which can only use information from a specific, pre-selected ontology, PowerMagpie accesses the whole of the Semantic Web through the Watson gateway and intelligently selects and presents to the user relevant information, drawn from millions of existing semantic web documents. As a result, PowerMagpie avoids the brittleness of earlier semantic browsers and defines a novel, very powerful approach to web browsing in the age of the Semantic Web. Martin Dzbor's participation in Revyu.com Revyu.com Revyu.com A web site where you can review and rate anything you want, which exploits semantic web technology Revyu.com is a web site where you can review and rate things. Unlike many other reviewing sites on the web, Revyu.com lets you review and rate absolutely anything you can name. Revyu.com exploits semantic web technology, both as the underlying representation mechanism and also to dynamically retrieve semantic information available on the web, which is relevant to a particular review.